kobe is so incredible in this game. i didn't see it live - saw the replay - and it still just gave you a chill to see someone THAT zoned in on offense. every little gap he got he just rose up and buried it. from everywhere. nobody catches fire the way kobe catches fire.

kobe is so incredible in this game. i didn't see it live - saw the replay - and it still just gave you a chill to see someone THAT zoned in on offense. every little gap he got he just rose up and buried it. from everywhere. nobody catches fire the way kobe catches fire.

I didn't see it live either. I saw part of the first half and Kobe was having a regular game, so I got bored and went to bed. The next morning to woke up and turned on the News and in the sports section it said Kobe scored 81 points. I thought it was a typo. Looking back at that game and watching all 81 points he scored, it was amazing. He almost couldn't miss. I saw the counter for all 81 points and once it hit about 65 or so, I was in total awe. Then he just kept scoring and scoring... amazing performance.

- These 4 teams had an average record of 31-51 (.378); they ranked 26th, 22nd, 30th, and 15th in defense out of 30 teams.

- Of Kobe's 18 games of 40+ points this season, only 3 were vs. teams above .500. Those 3 were 50+ point efforts (two vs. Houston and one vs. Utah), and only one of those was a truly great game (19-26 FG for 52 points vs. Utah); in the other two, he used 51 and 46 possessions to net 53 points, which is a pretty poor ratio. So Kobe only had one truly impressive game (and it was very impressive) of 40+ points against a winning team this season. One.

As for those 4 games being better than any 4 consecutive games from Jordan, well, no...not really. Here are a few streaks of 4 straight games from Jordan that I'd pretty easily take over Kobe's all things considered: